An empire needs a frontier. It collapses without one. So what is the U.S.' next frontier project? Biden alluded to it a bit in his speech today, but is there any particular spot in the world that looks ripe for state department ghouls to conjure an existential threat to Freedom, Baseball and Applie Pie?
I mean unless it all just shifts to brinkmanship with China. But I think actual conflict with China runs up against the interests of too big a slice of the capitalist class to make anything more than saber-rattling a possibility in the short term.
as much as theyve been angling towards maybe cuba, the incredibly obvious scale of this fuckup of an exit will make it a loooooooooooot harder to manufacture consent for any overt action any time soon, i think. not impossible, of course, but definitely much harder
i think people are really underestimating what a devastating blow this sudden and incredibly humiliating collapse in afghanistan is for american empire and its "credibility"
Graveyard of Empires and all that.
Yeah I think people underestimate just how much public opinion shapes action. It doesn’t decide on policies, but it can certainly slow them down or limit their scope of it becomes politically untenable to publicly support them. America’s been making its allies nervous for years now